Chapter 17February 8, 1973
Book 2. February
There
is
only
one
solution
for
falsehood:
It
is
to
cure
in
ourselves
all
that
contradicts
in
our
consciousness
the presence of the Divine.
(December 31, 1972)
I am very keen on this! It’s very true – very true. It may not be easy to understand, but it’s VERY PROFOUNDLY true.
All in us that veils or distorts or prevents the manifestation of the Divine is the falsehood.
It means a whole lot of work!
That’s what I am doing all the time – every day and all day long, whenever I don’t... even when I see people. It is the only thing worth living for.
(This is an extract from a meeting with a few teachers from the school. We owe these recordings to the
kind cooperation of one of them.)
What is the best way of preparing ourselves? For one clearly feels that all this is going to require a rather extensive preparation.
To broaden and enlighten your consciousness, naturally. But how to do that?... How do you broaden and enlighten your consciousness? If each one of you could find his psychic being and unite with it, all problems would be solved.
The psychic being is the Divine’s representative in the human being. It’s true, you know: the Divine isn’t something far-off and out of reach; the Divine is within you, but you aren’t fully conscious of it. You have rather... so far it is acting more as an influence than a Presence. It must become a conscious Presence, so at each moment you can ask yourselves how... how the Divine sees.
That’s how it is: first, how the Divine sees; then, how the Divine Wills... then, how the Divine does. It has nothing to do with going off to inaccessible regions: it’s RIGHT HERE. Although, for the moment, all the old habits and the general unconsciousness have put a sort of lid on it, which prevents us from seeing and feeling. We must... we must lift that, lift it off.
Basically, we must become conscious instruments... conscious... conscious of the Divine.
MONTHS.
(Mother remains concentrated for a few moments)
Did you feel anything?
(One of the teachers:) Was there a special descent?
There is no “descent”! That’s another wrong idea. There is no “descent.” It’s something that is ALWAYS here, but you just don’t feel it. There is no descent, that’s a completely wrong idea.
Do you know what the fourth dimension is?
We have heard about it....
Have you experienced it?
No, Mother.
Oh, but it’s precisely the best example modern science can offer – the fourth dimension. The Divine is the fourth dimension for us. It... belongs to the fourth dimension. It’s everywhere, you see – always everywhere. It doesn’t come and go: it’s always there... everywhere. It’s we, it’s our stupidity that keeps us from feeling it. There’s no need to go off anywhere... no need at all, none at all.
To be conscious of your psychic being, you must be able to have felt the fourth dimension, felt it once, otherwise you cannot know what it is.... Oh, Lord!
It’s been seventy years since I’ve known what the fourth dimension is – more than seventy years.
(silence)
Indispensable, it’s indispensable. Life begins with that. Otherwise, you are in falsehood – in a hodgepodge of confusion and ignorance.... The mind! The mind! The mind!
Otherwise, to be conscious of your own consciousness, you must mentalize it. It’s dreadful, dreadful!
There you are.
This new life isn’t the continuation of the old one, is it Mother, it has to spring up from within.
Yes! Yes!
There is no common ground between the two....
There is – there is, but you aren’t conscious of it. You must... you must... it’s the mind that prevents you from feeling it. One Must BE, you see. All you do is mentalize everything – everything. What you call “consciousness” is thinking things out; that’s what you call consciousness. But that’s not it at all! That’s not consciousness. Consciousness... should be wholly lucid and WORDLESS.